Poetry and Creative Writing Contests

Stony Brook $1,000 Short Fiction Prize

Submission guidelines and information:

Eligibility

Only undergraduate enrolled full time in United States and Canadian universities and colleges for the academic year 2009-10 are eligible. 

Guidelines

• Entrants identity and academic institution will not be revealed to judges.
• Submissions of no more than 7,500 words should be typed on 8.5 by 11 inch paper.
• Inculde one cover sheet with the title of the work only.  On a second cover sheet, include your name, permanent address, telephone number and e-mail address.  Do not include your name on any pages of your story.
• All entries must be accompanied by proof of currrent undergraduate enrollment, such as a photocopy of a grade transcript, a class schedule or payment receipt showing your full-time status.
• The institution's name and address must be clear.  No fax or electronic submissions will be accepted.
• Manuscripts will not be returned.  Submission assumes the right of Styony Brook to publish the winning story on its Website.
• The winning short story will automatically be considered for publication in The Southampton Review, the literary journal published by the Stony Brook Southampton MFA program in Writing and Literature.

Deadline

March 1, 2010.  All applications postmarked after the deadline will be returned unopened.  The winner and runner-up will be notified in June 2010.

John Westermann
Director, The Stony Brook $1,000 Short Fiction Prize
Stony Brook Southampton
MFA program in Writing and Literature
239 Montauk Highway
Southampton, NY 11968

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2010 Webb-Smith Essay Competition

$500 each for the best research essays on "The Mexican Revolution:  Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-1940

45th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lecture Series

Submission guidelines and information: We invite students and scholars who work on the topic of travel and travel literature to submit essays in English of no more than 10,000 words plus endnotes. Essays must not have been published previously and should deal with some aspect of the Mexican Revolution fronm 1910-1940.  Possible topics might include:  What was the international impact of the Mexican Revolution in terms of diplomacy or the world economy?  Should the 1910-1920 phase of the conflict be considered a serious social revolution or a civil war?  What were the roles of women or indigenous groups during the Mexican Revolutuion?  Did the conflict result in better living conditions for Mexicans?  How did the Mexican Revolution transform art or literature?  Can the Mexican Revolution be considered the beginning of Third World nationalism?

The winning essays will be awarded $500 and will be published in a forthcoming volume of the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, published by Texas A&M University Press, along with essays by the lecturers:  Carlos Martinez Assad, Francisco Balderrama, Thomas Benjamin, Jurgen Buchenau, Don Coerver, Miguel A. Gonzalez Quiroga, Linda Hall, and Stephen Lewis.  The volume will be edited by Douglas W. Richmond and Sam W. Haynes, with an introduction by John Mason Hart.

Deadline: Entries must be in by January 29, 2010.

Send submissions either electronically or by mail to:
Joyce S. Goldberg, Chair of the Webb Lectures Committee (goldberg@uta.edu)
Department of History
UT Arlington
Box 19529
Arlington, TX 76019-0529

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Crab Orchard Review

Annual Literary Contests:
The 2011 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize ($1,500)
Jack Dyer Fiction Prize ($1,500)
John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize ($1,500)

One winner and two finalists will be chosen in each category.  The three category winners will be published and the finalists offered publication (with a minimum payment of $150) in the Winter/Spring issue of Crab Orchard Review.  The winners and finalists will also be announced in the March/April Poets & Writers and on the Crab Orchard Review website.

Contest Guidelines
The postmark deadlines for this year's prize competitions are March 1, 2010 throug April 30, 2010.  Please do not send entries via FedEx, UPS, DHL, Express Mail - we don't want you to spend the extra amount when this is a postmark deadline.

Entries must be previously unpublished, original work written in English by a United States citizen or permanent resident (current students and employees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are not eligible).  Name, address, telephone number, email address, and work's title (or title for poetry entries) should appear only on a cover sheet for the entry.  The aughor's name should not appear on any sbsequent page.  All entries must be postmarked between March 1, 2010 and April 30, 2010.  Late entries will be returned unread.  Enclose a #10, self-addressed stamped envelope for notification of winners.  Do not inlcude an envelope or postage for a return of manuscript since entries will be recycled upon the decision of the final judges and notification of the winners.

Page Restrictions
Poetry entries should consist of 3 poems; 100 line limit per poem.  Prose entry length:  up to 6,000 words for fiction and up to 6,500 words for literary nonfiction.  One poetry entry, story, or essay per $10 entry; a writer may send up to three entries in one genre or a total of three entries if entering all competitions.

Entry Fee
$10 for each entry.  Please make checks payable to Crab Orchard Review.  Each fee entitiles entrant ot one copy of the 2011 Winter/Spring issue of Crab Orchard Review, which will include the winners of these competitions.  If you send two entries with $20, we will send you the 2011 Summer/Fall issue as well; if you send three entries with $30, we will send you the 2011 Summer/Fall issue and the 2012 Winter/Spring issue as well.

Address
Mail entries to:  Crab Orchard Review Literary Contests, Dept. of English, Mail Code 4503, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1000 Faner Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901.  Please indicate on the outside of the envelope if an entry is "Poetry", "Fiction", or "Literary Non-fiction".

We do not accept electronic submissions, but we hope in the future when we have our own server dedicated to submissions to offer this option.  We will let you know when this becomes possible, but it is at least a year or more away given funding issues.

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Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature (NUCL)

The University of Portland
The Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature seeks to provide an opportunity for undergraduate and advanced high school students in the Northwest to present their own scholarly or creative work to their peers. Participants are also invited to attend NUCL's keynote speaker, this year Mark Edmundson, Professor at the University of Virginia. On behalf of the NUCL, The University of Portland awards prizes and a scholarship for the best papers and works submitted, including the "Brass NUCL Award" for the hardest-hitting paper.

About the Conference
The conference is open to college and university students as well as honors or advanced-placement high school students, and seeks to provide a forum for students to present their ideas about literature through analytical and research papers, followed by small group discussions of the papers.

Submissions
Original Scholarly, Analytical or interpretive papers no longer than 15-18 minutes when read aloud. Poems and creative essays that reflect reading experience in contemporary and creative non-fiction. Student poems need to submit 5-7 poems, and creative essays must be limited to 15 minutes when read aloud.

Address
Mail one hard copy of the submission (do not put your name in the body of the submission) with the submission form to:
NUCL--Submission
Department of English
University of Portland
5000 N. Williamette Blvd
Portland, Or 97203-5798

For more information and to download the Submission Form, please visit the NUCL website at http://college.up.edu/english/nucl